Archaeologists in Belize have uncovered burial remains that could redefine how the Maya honored their dead within domestic ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

While it’s true that an ancient Mayan calendar shocked thousands into thinking the world would end in 2012, the large, finely crafted ruins that now stand throughout southeastern Mexico and Central ...

A few presidents ago, I was quite upset about U.S. involvement in a war. I read in the local paper that the president had gone to Guatemala, and he was taken to visit an ancient Maya archeological ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

Study co-lead Professor Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history. "Before our discovery, the oldest ...

Szymański was the lead on the project, having spent much of the last 15 years researching and writing papers on Mayan culture ... looking puppets on top of the ancient pyramid at the site ...